president trump writing up a bizarre letter to turkey s president. the date of this letter is october 9th, but he decided to leak it today amid widespread and bipartisan decision over the sudden decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria. this is one of those things where you must hear it for yourself, the whole letter and so i will read it to you. it comes on white house stationary. dear mr. president, this is written to president erdogan. let s work out a good deal, exclamation point. you don t want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people and i don t want to be responsible for destroying the turkish economy and i will. i val read give vr given you a little sample with respect to pastor brunson. he was held as a political prisoner in turkey. i ve worked hard to solve some of your problems. don t let the world down. you can make a great deal. general mazloum is willing to negotiate with you and he s willing to make concessions that they never would have made in the past
nbc news has just obtained a letter from donald trump to the president of turkey that made us do a double-take. so weird we had to check with the white house to make sure it s real, and that was our delay. it is. i want to read you the whole thing. dear mr. president, let s work out a good deal, exclamation point. you don t want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people and i don t want to be responsible for destroying the turkish economy, dash, and i will. i have already given you a little sample with respect to pastor brunson. i have worked hard to solve some of your problems. don t let the world down. you can make a great deal. general moslem is willing to negotiate with you and he s willing to make concessions that
increasing tariffs on steel back up to 50% tariff that just came off turkey not too long ago after pastor brunson was released and the president would delay $100 billion trade deal. in addition, the president auth rising broad range of sanctions against current and former members of turkish government and others involved in obstructing cease-fire and threatening peace and stability in syria. those sanctions include financial sanctions, blocking of property and barring entry of turkish individuals into the united states. some question whether the sanctions will have crippling effect on the turkish economy the president claims they will. senators lindsey graham and chris van hollen will introduce into the senate a companion set of sanctions, they believe working together with what the white house is proposing will have effect on turkey.
these areas forever. x were supposed to be in syria for 30 days, that was 10 years ago. we are bringing our soldiers back home. if somebody else wants to fight with the kurd against turkey or if the kurd want to move awrd. right now they are doing what they did with iraq. turkey wants to create a border. turkey also knows because i got back pastor brunson. i did a lot of damage to their currency to get him back. if turkey is out of line in what they are doing, really out of line, i will do something because our economy is so powerful now. when i took over this country 2 1/2 years ago, almost 3 years ago, we would have been second to china in a short period of time. now we are so far ahead of china you wouldn t believe. we picked up trillions in worth and china has gone down
x were supposed to be in syria for 30 days, that was 10 years ago. we are bringing our soldiers back home. if somebody else wants to fight with the kurd against turkey or if the kurd want to move awrd. right now they are doing what they did with iraq. turkey wants to create a border. turkey also knows because i got back pastor brunson. i did a lot of damage to their currency to get him back. if turkey is out of line in what they are doing, really out of line, i will do something because our economy is so powerful now. when i took over this country 2 1/2 years ago, almost 3 years ago, we would have been second to china in a short period of time. now we are so far ahead of china you wouldn t believe. we picked up trillions in worth and china has gone down